Thanks for the help Jens.
I had indeed modified the X server to use xkb in order to get backspace
working properly. I edited the /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 to change
xkb_symbols from pc105 to pc101. As you pointed out pc105 was mapping my
alt keys to alt and the non-existent windows keys to meta.
Does anyone know of a better way to solve this problem? Should I have
rerun one of the X setup or config programs?
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometime between Saturday and Monday morning my Alt keys stopped working
> in Xemacs. I thought the only change I made was adding
>
> (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t)
>
> however after backing out this change Alt still doesn't work. The
> Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination still works to change to a virtual terminal from
> X, so the alt key seems to be working.
>
>
> Ex. <Alt-x> prints "A-x not defined" in the minibuffer. "Esc-x" prints the
> correct "M-x".
>
> I tried to insert the character into a buffer with <Ctrl-q><Alt-x>. I received
> the following message in the minibuffer:
>
> key read cannot be inserted in a buffer: #<keypress-event alt-x>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on debugging this problem?
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